U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) Regulations
Kalium Solutions ensures chemical regulatory compliance with USA Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) regulations.
Need help marketing your chemical products in stores and big-box retailers in the United States? We offer a complete service to comply with Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) requirements.
For your CPSC labels, we provide the following services:
- Sale compliance validation
- CPSC label authoring
- Final assembly of your labels ready for printing
- Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) calculations
- Flashback and length of flame projection tests
- Flammable liquid and aerosol
- Combustible Liquid (100-150 °F)
- Contents Under Pressure
- Regulatory toxicity calculations for oral, dermal and inhalation
- Corrosive (irreversible destruction or changes to skin 24 hr contact or other appropriate test)
- Strong Sensitizer (significant allergic response – consider frequency and severity)
- Chronic Health (can consider risk)
- Evaluation of products requiring special labeling under section 3(b) of the act such as;
- (a) Diethylene glycol and mixtures containing 10 percent or more by weight of diethylene glycol.
- (b) Ethylene glycol and mixtures containing 10 percent or more by weight of ethylene glycol.
- (c) Products containing 5 percent or more by weight of benzene (also known as benzol) and products containing 10 percent or more by weight of toluene (also known as toluol), xylene (also known as xylol), or petroleum distillates such as kerosine, mineral seal oil, naphtha, gasoline, mineral spirits, stoddard solvent, and related petroleum distillates.
- (d) Methyl alcohol (methanol) and mixtures containing 4 percent or more by weight of methyl alcohol (methanol).
- (e) Turpentine (including gum turpentine, gum spirits of turpentine, steam-distilled wood turpentine, sulfate wood turpentine, and destructively distilled wood turpentine) and mixtures containing 10 percent or more by weight of such turpentine.
- The Commission finds that these substances present special hazards and that, for these substances, the labeling required by section 2(p)(1) of the act is not adequate for the protection of the public health. Under section 3(b) of the act, more statements are deemed necessary to supplement the labeling required by section 2(p)(1) of the act.
- Authoring reports for your government audits
- Import/Export compliance of chemicals
- Child-resistant container compliance validation
- Net contents statements
- Country of origin
- Other compliance validation according to U.S. regulations
Whether you are a manufacturer or importer, it is your responsibility to follow all the compliance verification steps required by the U.S. CPSC regulations. If you sell online and your product is available to everyone, you also must follow all these steps.
There are significant differences between Canadian CCCR and U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission regulations. CPSC. It's challenging to create a label that complies with both. To fulfill your regulatory obligations properly, you must have access to up-to-date databases and expertise in CPSC standards.
Our team of experts has the software and databases needed to perform all detailed calculations required under CPSC regulations.
Regulatory Requirements that Kalium Solutions Strive to Meet
- Products with chemicals must follow safety rules set by laws like the Consumer Product Safety Act (CPSA) and the Federal Hazardous Substances Act (FHSA).
- Regular testing of products with chemicals is required to make sure they still meet safety standards.
- Only labs approved by the CPSC can perform safety tests. Not following these rules can lead to fines or even legal charges. These labs are subject to accreditation requirements and must meet high standards to ensure that chemical tests are reliable and accurate.
- Manufacturers must maintain documentation supporting their classification. For example, test reports, records of reasonable testing programs, etc. This documentation must be kept for at least five years and made available to the CPSC upon request.
- If a manufacturer/importer fails to meet the CPSC's requirements, they are liable to face penalties, including civil and criminal fines. CPSC can also recall, seize, or remove any/all non-compliant products from the market if found to contain hazardous chemicals or substances.
Assessing the risks
At Kalium Solutions, we assess the risks through a well-designed process to ensure safety for the consumers and conformity to the regulations.
- We consider all possible issues that might arise. For a product, this could be chemical hazards, manufacturing defects, or misuse by consumers.
- We analyze how serious each risk could be and what are the impacts of these risks, such as minor or serious.
- We then rank these risks based on their severity from most to least serious, based on their impact and likelihood. This helps us focus our attention on the biggest threats.
- Our team then comes up with steps to reduce or prevent each risk, with options like, more testing, better training, or changing product or formula design.
The detention procedure
Under 15 U.S.C. § 2066(b) and 15 U.S.C. § 1273(a), the CPSA has the authority to seize and detain products that fail to meet the CPSA regulations. The authority can detain non-compliant products, including recall, seizure, or removal from the market if found to contain hazardous chemicals or substances. However, certain products may be permitted under the provision of Under section 14 of the FHSA, 15 U.S.C. § 1273.
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